Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The tree that started it all

11/21/2011.  Otherwise a pretty uneventful day; sunny, clear skies prompted me to take the dogs out for a hike, and at the last minute I grabbed my camera just in case I saw something cool along the way.  Little did I know that a random tree alongside the trail would be the beginning of a quest, let alone one that would subtly change the way I looked at the world.

There it was, a birch-type tree like hundreds around it, unassuming in every way except one:  where once a branch had been, there now was a perfect heart formed by the tree.

 
I stood for a moment, mesmorized at how perfectly shaped the heart was, then snapped a couple pictures and went on my way, my mind preoccupied by other thoughts.

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